Evenings at the microscope : or, Researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life (1884)
Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 302
d thither, and evidently have the facultyof adhering very firmly by their dilated tips to anyobject to which they are applied. So much we can discern as we watch the creature dis-porting in this vessel of water; but we will now endeavourto learn a little more about its structure and… … SUCKER OF TJRCHIIT. knob which was attached to the bottom of the saucermaintains its hold, but the tube has suddenly shrunk upto a sixth part of itsformer length, ex-changing at the sametime its smooth slen.derness and translu-cency for a wrinkledsemi-opacity. I pushthe knob aside with aneedles…
Zoology · Microscopy
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